mgorny added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D23752#581416, @chandlerc wrote:

> I don't get it.
>
> There is nothing "RUNTIMES" about it. And this variable is actually used to 
> produce real libraries: libclang, etc.
>
> It's just the LIBDIR_SUFFIX. That's it. The reason it is called 
> CLANG_LIBDIR_SUFFIX and set from LLVM_LIBDIR_SUFFIX is to support using the 
> CMake build of Clang in a standalone mode where there *isn't* a 
> LLVM_LIBDIR_SUFFIX and instead the CLANG_LIBDIR_SUFFIX needs to be set 
> directly.
>
> So I'm really not understanding what benefit this change is bringing.
>
> And the other comment in the CMake file that the CLANG_LIBDIR_SUFFIX must 
> exactly match whatever LLVM_LIBDIR_SUFFIX is remains, AFAICT, 100% correct.


That is 100% incorrect. LLVM_LIBDIR_SUFFIX is used almost everywhere, mostly 
because it goes implicitly through LLVM's CMake macros. CLANG_LIBDIR_SUFFIX is 
truly only used to set the paths in the sources.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D23752



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